Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the first of six production Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) Engagement Operations Centres to the US government under a contract for Poland’s WISLA program. WISLA is Poland’s program of the country’s medium-range air and missile defenses, and it marks the first foreign military sale of IBCS.
“As Poland acquires IBCS to modernise their air defenses, they are also taking major steps toward real Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and mission readiness in the future battlespace,” said Christine Harbison, vice president and general manager, combat systems and mission readiness, Northrop Grumman. “Multiple live exercises and flight tests have demonstrated the JADC2 capabilities inherent in IBCS’ architecture.”
Poland is also working with the US government for deliveries of IBCS equipment racks and software to be installed in operations centres designed, manufactured, and delivered in partnership with Polish industry, in support of the country’s NAREW short-range air defense modernisation.
The open systems architecture approach of the IBCS program of record is core to Northrop Grumman Australia’s Joint Air Battle Management System solution offering to the Commonwealth under Air 6500.
According to Northrop Grumman, IBCS has an open, modular and scalable architecture that is foundational to integrating all available assets in the battlespace, regardless of source, service or domain. Its architecture is designed to enable the efficient and affordable integration of current and future systems. Through numerous successful tests and demonstrations, IBCS has reportedly validated the ability to connect and fuse multi-service sensor data to multi-service weapons demonstrating JADC2 capabilities.